A Recipe For A Good Design System — Smashing Magazine

Maintaining a design system is a lot of work. In this article, Atila Fassina shares his lessons learned and how a platform such as Backlight can help put together a series of tools to speed up your architecture setup.

#CSS
Added: 3 Mar 2022

A playlist of our blog posts about css.

#CSS
Added: 3 Mar 2022
5 Modern Bash Scripting Techniques That Only A Few Programmers Know

Make your Bash scripts more interactive and futuristic with these tips.

#DevOps
Added: 3 Mar 2022
How a searchable knowledge management system helped Dropbox reuse knowledge and work more effectively

Founded in 2007, Dropbox offers secure, flexible cloud storage and file sharing for individuals, teams, and enterprise customers.

#DevOps
Added: 3 Mar 2022
What you give up when moving into engineering management

Moving into a management role may be a rewarding step in your career, but you should know about the things you're leaving behind.

#Soft Skills
Added: 3 Mar 2022
Rails administrate : big tutorial, bits of philosophy

administrate gem is often qualified as DSL-less admin builder, i.e. every file your admin dashboard rely on, can be fully overridden by the developer. Let's see how.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 28 Feb 2022
Future CSS: Level 4 Selectors

CSS does a lot with its selectors, but there's still a lot more it could do to make things easier for...

#CSS
Added: 25 Feb 2022
Introduction to Domain Events

What is a Domain Event? Introduction and definition.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 25 Feb 2022
The Economics of TDD - Semaphore

TDD can help you accelerate development and reduce costs over a project’s lifecycle.

#Consulting
Added: 25 Feb 2022
Ruby - attr_accessor, attr_writer, and attr_reader

In Ruby, object methods are public by default, while data is private. To access data, we use the accessor method.

#Ruby
Added: 25 Feb 2022
10 Free Courses to Learn Terraform

Here see what I have curated based on my experience and personal notes.

#DevOps
Added: 25 Feb 2022
The new GitHub Issues - February 23rd update | GitHub Changelog

The new GitHub Issues - February 23rd update

#AI
Added: 24 Feb 2022
The Stimulus Trigger Pattern

I walk you through a real-world implementation of triggering HTTP requests as a side-effect of an action taken by a user.

#HOTWire#Ruby on Rails
Added: 24 Feb 2022
What makes writing more readable?

Looking at how to make writing easier to read

#Design
Added: 24 Feb 2022
Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools

Ruby on Rails and ReactJS consulting company. We also build mobile applications using React Native

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 23 Feb 2022
An Introduction to the ViewComponent Gem

Modern web UIs are complex. Traditional layout/template/partial techniques are not always the best fit. ViewComponent seeks to provide a better way. It's a framework for creating reusable, testable & encapsulated view components that integrate seamlessly with Rails. In this article, Abiodun Olowo...

#Ruby on Rails#testing
Added: 23 Feb 2022
Sidekiq In Rails: Native Worker & ActiveJob, Who’s The Winner? - 5 min read

Learnings from setting up a cron job in Rails using Sidekiq.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 23 Feb 2022
How To Develop A Text Editor For The Web — Smashing Magazine

How do text typing and editing work on the web? Although this process might seem straightforward, there is a lot of technical nuance behind its apparent simplicity. This article looks at how typing on the web works.

#CSS#Javascript
Added: 23 Feb 2022
Integration Testing with Capybara

Blend the speed of <code>Rack::Test</code>-driven Integration Tests with the power and utility of <code>Capybara</code> finders and assertions.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 23 Feb 2022
Hotrails - Learn modern Ruby on Rails with Hotwire

Hotwire is the default front-end framework for new Ruby on Rails applications. Learn how to craft reactive single-page applications with Stimulus and Turbo.

#HOTWire#Javascript#Ruby on Rails
Added: 21 Feb 2022
Modern Front-End Magic With Rails 7: A Visual  Editor For Markdown (Part 1)

In this article series, we build a reactive WYSIWYG editor for Markdown content using the brand new Alpha 2 release of `Ruby on Rails 7` and the `Hotwire` stack.

#HOTWire#Ruby on Rails
Added: 19 Feb 2022
The Importance of Vision as a Developer

Fixer Upper. We all love it. Even if you hate it… you still kinda love it. If you are unfamiliar...

#Soft Skills
Added: 19 Feb 2022
GitHub - Shopify/maintenance_tasks: A Rails engine for queueing and managing maintenance tasks for data migrations and backfills.

A Rails engine for queueing and managing maintenance tasks for data migrations and backfills. - GitHub - Shopify/maintenance_tasks: A Rails engine for queueing and managing maintenance tasks for da...

#Ruby#Ruby on Rails
Added: 19 Feb 2022
Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity

Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity. Learn how Shopify took its code base from monolith to modular monolith.

#Ruby on Rails
Added: 19 Feb 2022
Changing a polymorphic_type in Rails

How my team redefined the way we store one of the polymorphic associations in the Shopify codebase. This post is the solution we wish we found when we were looking.

#Backend#DevOps#Ruby on Rails
Added: 19 Feb 2022
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